On 1/1/21 6:12 am, Tom Browder wrote:
Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box?I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print single labels from my adress db with a suitable specialty printer and a suitable Linux driver.Thanks, and Happy New Year to all! -Tom
I have a label printer running under cups on my Debian linux system. I wrote the driver myself and added the CUPS definitions so it could be shared to other systems across the LAN. In particular it can be accessed by windows machines.
The CUPS system allows two modes. Either using the host driver, where the printer is effectively a postscript device that uses the driver to do the final render, or it operates in pass-through mode where a remote driver - say on a windows machine - generates the device commands and image data and these are transparently sent to the printer un-modified by CUPS.
I wrote the driver because my particular printer has a different command set to most. In the real world, many label printers use the Zebra command set and CUPS has that built in, so it's simply a matter of configuration.
My printer is in the GPrinter family which shares its command set with a number of other brands
-- Jeremy
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